LOCATION PAGELAND SC+GA NCEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-silty, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Ultic Hapludalfs
TYPICAL PEDON: Pageland silt loam - on a 2 percent slope in a cultivated field. (Colors are for moist soil.)
Ap--0 to 7 inches; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; few fine decayed roots; few fine and medium clean sand grains; few worm casts; few coarse pores; slightly acid; clear wavy boundary. (2 to 8 inches thick)
Bt1--7 to 19 inches; olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) silty clay loam; common medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; many fine pores; few distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent slate channers; strongly acid; clear wavy boundary.
Bt2--19 to 26 inches; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; common medium faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and common fine distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; common fine pores; common distinct clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent slate channers; very strongly acid; gradual wavy boundary.
Bt3--26 to 33 inches; mottled strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) and gray (N 6/0) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable in brown and yellow parts and firm in gray part; few fine roots; many distinct clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent slate channers; moderately acid; gradual wavy boundary. (Combined thickness of the Bt horizon is 13 to 36 inches.)
Cr--33 inches; multicolored weathered fractured slate; difficult to dig with spade; few widely spaced seams of light olive gray (5Y 6/2) silty clay in cracks.
TYPE LOCATION: Chesterfield County, South Carolina; 5.7 miles west of the intersection of S. C. Highway 207 and S. C. Highway 9 in Pageland on S. C. Highway 207; 250 feet south on S. C. Highway 577; 80 feet west of road.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Solum thickness and depth to weathered bedrock are 20 to 40 inches. Content of slate channers ranges from 0 to 15 percent in the A horizon and from 0 to 10 percent in the Bt horizon. The soil is extremely acid to strongly acid in the A and upper Bt horizons, except where the surface layer has been limed, and very strongly acid to moderately acid in the lower Bt and BC horizons.
The A or Ap horizon has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 2 to 4. It is fine sandy loam, loam or silt loam.
The E horizon, where present, has hue of 10YR to 5Y, value of 5 to 8, and chroma of 4 to 8. It is loam or silt loam.
The upper Bt horizon has hue of 10YR to 5Y, value of 5 to 7, and chroma of 4 to 8. It is silt loam or silty clay loam.
The lower Bt horizon has hue of 7.5YR to 5Y, value of 5 to 7, and chroma of 2 to 8, or it is mottled without dominant matrix color. It is silt loam, silty clay loam, silty clay or clay.
The BC horizon, where present, has hue of 10YR to 5Y, value of 5 to 7, and chroma of 2 to 8, or it is without dominant matrix and mottled in shades of red, brown, yellow and gray. It is silt loam, silty clay loam or silty clay.
The Cr horizon is weathered and fractured Carolina slate or other fine-grained rock.
COMPETING SERIES: These are the Claycreek, Rexor, and Spiro series in the same family. Claycreek and Rexor soils are more than 40 inches to weathered bedrock. Spiro soils have rock fragments of shale, siltstone and sandstone, and do not have mottles of chroma of 2 or less above a depth of 36 inches.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Pageland soils are on nearly level to gently sloping ridge tops, shoulders, and near the heads of drains in the Southern Piedmont. Slopes commonly are 2 to 6 percent, but range from 0 to 6 percent. The soils formed in material weathered from Carolina slate or other fine-grained bedrock. Mean annual precipitation ranges from 48 to 50 inches and mean annual temperature ranges from 60 to 62 degrees. The growing season ranges from 210 to 225 days.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These include the Alamance, Badin, Goldston, and Kirksey soils. Alamance and Kirksey soils are on similar landscapes and are more than 40 inches to weathered bedrock. Badin soils are on convex areas, have a clayey particle-size control section and are Ultisols. Goldston soils are on convex ridge tops and steeper side slopes, have a loamy-skeletal particle-size control section and have weathered bedrock at a depth of 10 to 20 inches.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Moderately well drained; slow to medium runoff; moderately slow permeability. These soils have a perched water table at a depth of 1.5 to 3.0 feet.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas are cleared and used for growing corn soybeans, small grain, or pasture. Forested areas are in oaks, hickory and pine.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: The slate belt of the Piedmont of South Carolina, and possibly North Carolina and Virginia. The soils of this series are of small extent.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Raleigh, North Carolina
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Chesterfield County, South Carolina; 1989.
REMARKS: These soils were formerly included with the Kirksey series in mapping.
Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are:
Ochric epipedon - the zone from the surface of the soil to a depth of 7 inches (Ap horizon).
Argillic horizon - the zone between a depth of 7 and 33 inches (Bt1, Bt2, and Bt3 horizons).
Paralithic contact - Weathered and fractured bedrock at a depth of 33 inches (Cr horizon).
TABULAR SERIES DATA:
SOI-5 Soil Name Slope Airtemp FrFr/Seas Precip Elevation SC0138 PAGELAND 0- 15 60- 62 210-225 48- 50 350- 600SOI-5 FloodL FloodH Watertable Kind Months Bedrock Hardness SC0138 NONE 1.5-3.0 PERCHED DEC-MAR 20-40 SOFT
SOI-5 Depth Texture 3-Inch No-10 Clay% -CEC- SC0138 0- 7 SIL L FSL 0- 1 88-100 4-24 4- 7 SC0138 7-26 SICL SIL 0- 1 90-100 18-35 6- 22 SC0138 26-33 SIL SICL SIC 0- 2 90-100 18-45 6- 22 SC0138 33-60 WB - - - -
SOI-5 Depth -pH- O.M. Salin Permeab Shnk-Swll SC0138 0- 7 3.6- 5.5 .5-2. 0- 0 0.6- 2.0 LOW SC0138 7-26 3.6- 5.5 0.-.5 0- 0 0.2- 0.6 LOW SC0138 26-33 4.5- 6.0 0.-.5 0- 0 0.2- 0.6 LOW SC0138 33-60 - - - -